All 2025 Conference Sessions

Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit 2025 dives deep into key topics for IAM around program management, agentic AI, optimizing resources and more to help you address your organization's mission-critical challenges.

2025 Conference Theme

Identity at the Core

In the face of geopolitical volatility and economic uncertainties, IAM is at the core of business operations and cybersecurity, ensuring resilience through secure interactions among people, machines and organizations. Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit provides  guidance on building scalable and efficient IAM infrastructures in today's complex environment.

Explore our conference sessions below, all developed with this theme in mind.

Hear from Gartner VP Analyst and Conference Chair, Homan Farahmand, on what makes Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit an essential conference for leaders in the IAM field.
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Monday, December 08, 2025

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM CST

Technical Insights: Workload Access Management and API Access Control Architectures
Erik Wahlstrom, VP Analyst, Gartner
Platform engineering teams need your guidance on how to add managed workload identities to all new workloads and architect modern API access control standards that provide strong identity issuance, authentication, authorization, and federation. In this session, we will chart the path for modern workload IAM with capabilities that do not rely on legacy practices and help developers get to a security-by-designed, "hello, world" as quickly as possible. ... Show More Show Less

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM CST

DigiCert: How PKI and IAM Can Save the Digital World
The world of IAM depends on PKI as a cornerstone of intelligent trust to provide secure interactions for all digital identities. But AI and quantum computing are changing the game for both. Join DigiCert to learn how you can:
-Modernize your PKI with automation for security, resiliency, and scale
-Combine the best of both PKI and IAM worlds to thrive in a post-quantum, AI-powered world.
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11:45 AM - 12:15 PM CST

Microsoft: Secure access for AI agents with Microsoft Entra
Take control of agent sprawl with new identity and network access capabilities from Microsoft Entra. This session will show you how to register and manage every agent across your environment, govern agent identities with enterprise-grade lifecycle controls, and protect agent access to critical data and resources. Empower your organization to secure the rapidly expanding agent ecosystem. ... Show More Show Less

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM CST

Ping Identity: Securely Embrace the New Agentic Channel
As AI agents emerge as a new digital channel, identity is the key to unlocking trust, personalization, and seamless engagement. From customer loyalty to digital commerce, organizations must evolve beyond human-only journeys to also enable secure, frictionless experiences for agentic identities.
Join Ping Identity to explore how Identity for AI Agents enables secure, personalized, and frictionless interactions across humans, businesses, and AI. ... Show More Show Less

12:30 PM - 01:15 PM CST

Ask the Expert: How to Modernize Machine IAM?
Steve Wessels, Director Analyst, Gartner
Current machine identity and access management (IAM) practices are fragmented and insufficient, leading to potential security and compliance risks. To address these challenges, IAM leaders should enhance and unify their existing approaches to better secure machine identities. Additionally, it is essential to modernize machine IAM practices in collaboration with all stakeholders, emphasizing just-in-time credentialing, proactive management of technology debt, and continuous monitoring to safeguard critical assets. ... Show More Show Less

01:15 PM - 01:35 PM CST

Curity: Securing the Non-Human Internet: OAuth in the Age of AI

As AI evolves, actors consuming identities are no longer just humans. Autonomous agents now connect, permissions linger beyond their purpose, and ephemeral processes appear and vanish in an instant. OAuth can adapt to protect privacy, reduce risk, and restore control Join this session to understand how to secure what’s no longer visible, controllable, or even alive. ... Show More Show Less

07:00 PM - 07:20 PM CST

SpecterOps: Attackers are bypassing your identity controls. Learn what + how to fix.

Jared Atkinson, CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER, SPECTEROPS
Justin Kohler, CHIEF PRODUCT OFFICER, SpecterOps
Recent breaches show how quickly attackers can pivot from on-prem to cloud to threaten the enterprise and bypass security controls like PAM, CAP and ITDR. In this session, we’ll explain the inexplicable advantage the attacker seems to have and how to use the same attack path mapping practice as part of your identity-first security strategy. By visualizing the attacker’s map, IAM leaders can remove the attacker’s advantage and retake control. ... Show More Show Less
Tuesday, December 09, 2025

11:15 AM - 11:45 AM CST

CyberArk: Agentic AI Implications to Identity Security and Machine IAM
AI agents are a new identity class—autonomous, often privileged and inheriting risks from humans and machines. CyberArk will explore challenges of agentic AI on identity security, how to secure agentic identities, insights from machine IAM best practices and more. Then McKinsey will share research on agentic AI usage in enterprise organizations, the control frameworks needed to manage them, and how risk management models are evolving in response. ... Show More Show Less

11:15 AM - 11:45 AM CST

Transmit Security: Forget Who’s Logging In—Start Rethinking What’s Powering Identity
AI agents are redefining how digital identity operates across every stage of the user lifecycle. Join Transmit Security and an executive from a leading global financial institution to explore how enterprises can operationalize agentic AI to deliver secure, seamless, AI-first experiences. Governance, authentication, and fraud prevention must evolve in real time—and an AI-native identity backbone enables trusted innovation at scale. ... Show More Show Less

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“Comprehensive coverage over what many consider to be a niche security topic. Insightful discussion on best practices, major players and up-and-coming solution providers.”

Brian Curl
CISO, Rogers Corporation

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